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How to Use This Manual

The Oracle Enterprise Manager Policy Reference Manual (hereafter referred to as the Policy Reference Manual) lists all the Oracle defined target policies that Enterprise Manager monitors. This manual compiles in one place all the target policy help available online, eliminating the need to have the Grid Control Console up and running.

Organization of Policy Text

This manual contains a chapter for each Enterprise Manager target for which there are policies defined by Oracle. The policies in each chapter are in alphabetical order according to category.

Policy Information

The information for each policy comprises a description, summary of the policy's main properties, default values, impact of the violation, and action to perform when the violation occurs. The following list provides greater detail:

States whether the policy is enabled upon installation of Enterprise Manager. The possible values are yes and no.

Alert Message

Message indicating why the policy was violated. Words that display between percent signs (%) denote variables. For example, Disk Group %DISK_GROUP_NAME% could translate to Disk Group /dev/hda.

Abbreviations and Acronyms

The following abbreviations and acronyms are used in this manual:

Abbreviation/Acronym

Name

ASM

Automatic Storage Management

Database

Oracle Database

DBA

Database Administrator

IP

Internet Protocol

FAT

File Allocation Table

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

HTTP

HyperText Transfer Protocol

HTTPd

HyperText Transfer Protocol daemon

LGWR

Log Writer Process

Listener

Oracle Listener

OC4J

Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE

NCOMP

Natively Compiled

NTFS

NT File System

PGA

Program Global Area

RAC

Real Application Cluster

SGA

System Global Area

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer

SSO

Single Sign-On

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SPFILE

Server Parameter File

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

Background Information on Policies

A policy defines the desired behavior of systems and is associated with one or more targets or groups.

While a metric alert monitors data that is very dynamic in nature and attempts to evaluate how the system is performing, a policy monitors data that changes much less frequently. Policies evaluate the existing state of the system against corporate standards and best practices.

Accessing Policy Rules Using the Grid Control Console

To access the Policy Rule Library page that contains all the policy rules provided by Oracle, perform the following steps:

From the Grid Control Console home page, click Policies.

On the Policy Violations page, click Library.

On the Policy Rule Library page, locate the policy of interest and click the Information icon (i) in the Description column. The help for the policy displays.

For additional information about policies, see the Enterprise Manager online help and Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts.